Existing environmental and social protection will be gutted to allow destructive logging and mining in even the most ecologically sensitive and biodiverse areas of the world without consultation from indigenous peoples about the land they depend on.

Record numbers of rhinos are being poached and killed in South Africa for their horn. Those horns end up being sold illegally for their supposed medicinal properties and Vietnam is playing a major role in this.

Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil & Carter Roberts, President and CEO of the World Wide Fund for Nature
Goal: Thank the Brazilian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature for partnering to permanently protect the Brazilian Amazon rainforest

arget: Oregon Department of Forestry
Goal: Revise logging increase that may threaten endangered species
The Oregon Board of Forestry has recently come under criticism for increasing the amount of logging in state-managed forests

Unesco experts say the Tasmanian Government's move to strip 74,000 hectares of World Heritage status so soon after it was added - in June 2103 - is unprecedented. Unesco's World Heritage committee will consider the amendment in June 2014.

After years of international assistance and a "moratorium" on new rainforest logging, it is revealed that local permits for individuals to clear rainforest are being abused by the government and industrial loggers, even as the Forest Stewardship Council

The wildfires sizzling through dried-out forests and grasslands across the Southwest are a bad omen in a fire season that is expected to continue for weeks until nature provides relief in the form of seasonal rains.